Florida Python Challenge: Two Weeks In, an Updated Body Count

We're pretty much at the middle mark for the first-ever Florida Python Challenge, the dubious public service free-for-all the state cooked up to control the dangerous number of Burmese pythons slithering around the state.

If you crunch the numbers, that roughly averages two dead pythons per day. The contest runs until February 10. So if we keep chugging at the same clip, the final kill count could land in the neighborhood of 60 snakes. That sounds like a lot of boots, purses, and belts, not to mention plenty of finger food. (Actually, the dead snakes have to be turned over to the University of Florida... sorry, no snake bites).

Then again, considering there are somewhere around 800 hunters enrolled in the challenge, the effort and pomp and camera glare all seem arguably for naught.

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